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 DAYBREAK 
 
 A POEM 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE FAIRLEY BECK, 
 
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 " Time, in likeness of a guide. 
 Leads tlie Republic, as a bride, 
 Up to God's side." 
 
 SWINBURNB, 
 
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 TORONTO 
 1873. 
 
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 " Titnf, ill tikriK.^s i>f o, ijni'lr, 
 I. each f/ic liCpiiliHr. (Xi a briiir, 
 /']> to Itod's .•<i'lr.'' 
 
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TO TIIK MK.MORY OF 
 
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DAYBTIEAK. 
 
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 Behold! soul of man. the morn i no* Ijronk — 
 
 The night, tiuit wrapped thee Ion*;", hath passjMJ away ; 
 From thy deep slee]), jit hist, thou dost awak«*, 
 
 Standing all glorious in the light of day ; 
 
 From doubt and iear is cleared thy perfect way. 
 Jlenceforth strai^jht onward in resistless miojlit, 
 
 Will be thy course, with nought to dim thy way, 
 Vov, far behind thee, hast thou cast the night ; 
 And wrong is crushed and <lcad, and now gives way to right 
 
 II. 
 
 (~)h, liberty ! there once was one who gave 
 
 His soul's high ])Ower of ]ioesy to thee ; 
 His life was ended in the moaninu.' wave, 
 
 Of his blue nnn'muriuir Italian sea. 
 
 His beauteous s])irit, high, and pure, and free, 
 Disdained to bow before dark, custom's throne ; 
 
 To the God of human error kneeled not he (I), 
 T^ut to groat nature bowed he down alone ; 
 And, l)eside her great ])ower, no other (Jod did own. 
 
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 [ii its ]o\\^ |)rof,a'o«s to tlio perfect dixy, 
 
 The soul (>f inuTi eiicli new relii^ioii inn(]e, 
 Still upward going in its <lestinc(l way — 
 
 \n cliains of doubt and error long delayed ; 
 
 Fashioning ])hantoins — of itself afraid — 
 To its own thoughts and wishes bowed it low ; 
 
 Its Gods, witli all its ])assions, were arraye<l. 
 To these it bowed itself and worshippe<l so, 
 Kaeh thought of love or hate, or joy, or grief, or woe 
 
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 Then Christ arose, and taught the listening crowd ; 
 
 The (Jods of Home before his face grew dim ; 
 Unto him soon whole races lunnbly bowed, 
 
 An<l nations knelt in after days to him. 
 
 Hut now, in the light of moiMi, his star grows dim ('1) ; 
 The light of truth has fallen on man's soul. 
 
 And superstition ])asseth as a dream ; 
 The sun of truth has pierced the clouds that roll 
 Around her wav, and now she clind»s uuin h<>r goM,!. 
 
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 (), Great Republic ! Tliou dost come a-iiear — 
 
 We hail tlieo, who liave -svaiteJ for thoo long ; 
 Before thy face fast fly revenge and fear, 
 
 And right is throned now in place of wrong. 
 
 The weak no more down-trodden by the strong, 
 And liis soul, freed from superstition's chain, 
 
 Man shall soar \\\) m liope and courage strong, 
 With nought his aspirations to ri'strain, 
 And thus his dostinccl jdacc and glory sliall attain. 
 
 VI. 
 
 (), Knirland ! Thou hast waked from out tliv h'aiice, 
 And light is fallen on thy closed eyes ; 
 
 Among the nations first thou dost advance, 
 Standino: all Horious in the red sunrise — 
 Spread out thy ])anncr to the morning skies ! 
 
 Behold each nation now is waking from her slee]), 
 And casts the slumber from her closed eves ; 
 
 Long hast thou lain in slumber dark and deeji. 
 
 But now the time is come to wake tlwo out of sleep. 
 
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 VIT. 
 
 Arifl thou Italia ! (^f the i>'oI(lou skios — 
 
 Wliat shall we say, fair sunny land, of th"(» '. 
 
 Ijohold, in all her beauty, fair she lies 
 
 l^esido her softly inurnuuinj;' summer sea — 
 A land so beautiful nuist needs l)e 1V(m\ 
 
 Holy to us thou art. for in thee lies 
 The ])oet of divinest liberty. 
 
 Whose soul was tune<l to loftiest melodies, 
 
 And who so lon^* did hojx' to sec this Itright siuu'ise. 
 
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 (Jreat, O C^anada ! shall be thy name — 
 
 AmouL^ the nations foremost thou shalt be ; 
 
 Pei"(;hanee, as sister, thou shalt one day claim 
 Ih'itannia, ancient ruler of the sea, 
 May thy new people be unchained and frec^ ! 
 
 For thee there sounds the trump of fj-eedom now, 
 The light of morning' eai'ly dawns on thee — 
 
 The seal of greatness set upon th}' brow, 
 
 'fo thee, i'rom natiu'e's hand, unnumbered blessings How 
 
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 (].) *'To tlicGodof hnniiin (HTor kneeled not lie." 
 
 Tlie existing i(le;i of God is utterly at Viirianee with reason and 
 common sense. T>ecause man works and strives throu;j;li litr lo 
 attain some end, or accomplish some object, lie imagines he has a 
 will ; but in truth, he is in fact but acting by the internal neces- 
 sity of liis own nature, for his inind, like every thing else in natiuv', 
 is _/r;;*c^', which is ever developing. The great minds of thr race, 
 which liav(^ wrought clianges in the world, are Imt portions of the 
 iidinite mind, which is thus e\ or manifesting itself in the universe. 
 Will is only a name we give to this force , and thus we endow the 
 Supreme Being with a will : but this is but another name for tin- 
 orijrinal and ever active force of nature. 
 
 {'2.) "Now, in the light of morn, his star grows dim." 
 
 It is not here nu'ant to disparage Christianity; for, like; rvery 
 other religion, it is, doubtless, a stage in the development of tlu- 
 human mind ; and its high moral doctrines shew a great advanc(> 
 on ])receding religions; and it is in this sense a revelation from 
 (lod. " Trust in God," is but a belief in the doctrine of neces- 
 sity ; for everything in nature must act ])recisely as it does. 
 (Christianity is the endeavour of the human mind to attain that 
 slate of perfection, when it will cease to emjdoy its energies in 
 striving in professions, trades, tVc, (which, however, are a neces- 
 sarv stage in its development) and " when the whole Avorld is fed 
 and clad out of a vast surplus of corn and clothing produced with 
 lightest hibour," then it will be free to employ itself in the con- 
 tien)[)lati(m of the universe, and in knowing and lovhigGoil, whicli, 
 as Spinoza says, is its highest hap}tiness.